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Author : Patrice Lumumba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
ISBN : UOM:39015002861220
Author : Patrice 1925-1961 Lumumba
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013654390
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Author : Andrée Blouin,Jean Scott MacKellar
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081405784
Author : L. H. Gann,Peter Duignan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : 0521078598
A comprehensive study of recent African history, examining the political, social, and economic effects of colonialism.
Author : Leo Zeilig
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781908323958
Patrice Lumumba (1925–61) was one of the most famous leaders of the African Independence Movement. After his murder, he became an icon of anti-imperialist struggle, and his picture, along with those of Che Guevara and Ho Chi Minh, was brandished around the world at demonstrations in the 1960s. This second edition of the only full biography of Lumumba presents his life and quest for the Congo’s liberation, which influenced how the Cold War would be fought in Africa and the nature of the independence granted to huge swaths of the globe after 1945. For those fighting for freedom, Lumumba became a figure of resistance against the imperial colonizers of the world. Including new archival material and information gained from British intelligence, this new edition is a valuable introduction to a pivotal figure of the twentieth century.
Author : J. J. Carney
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532682520
A devout Catholic politician assassinated by a capricious dictator. A Cardinal standing up for his people in the face of political repression. A priest leading his nation’s constitutional revision. The “Mother Teresa of Uganda” transforming the lives of thousands of abandoned children. Two missionaries who founded the best community radio station in Africa. A peace activist who has amplified the voices of grassroots women in the midst of a brutal civil war. Such are the powerful stories in For God and My Country, a book that explores how seven inspiring leaders in Uganda’s largest religious community have shaped the social and political life of their country. Drawing on extensive oral research, J. J. Carney analyzes how personal faith, theological vision, and Catholic social teaching have propelled these leaders to embody Vatican II’s call for the Church to be a sign of communion and unity in the world. Readers will gain rich insight into Uganda’s postcolonial politics and the history of one of Africa’s most important Catholic communities. Each chapter closes with leadership lessons and reflection questions, making this an ideal text for classroom and parish adoption.
Author : Ludo De Witte
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781839767913
The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba-the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity-since it perpetration. Making use of a huge array of official sources as well as personal testimony from many of those in the Congo at the time, Ludo De Witte reveals a network of complicity ranging from the Belgian government to the CIA. Patrice Lumumba's personal strength and his quest for African unity emerges in stark contrast with one of the murkiest episodes in twentieth-century politics.
Author : Stuart A. Reid
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781524748821
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo “This is one of the best books I have read in years . . . gripping, full of colorful characters, and strange plot twists.” —Fareed Zakaria, CNN host It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium—one of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers. At the helm as prime minister was charismatic nationalist Patrice Lumumba. Just days after the handover, however, the Congo’s new army mutinied, Belgian forces intervened, and Lumumba turned to the United Nations for help in saving his newborn nation from what the press was already calling “the Congo crisis.” Dag Hammarskjöld, the tidy Swede serving as UN secretary-general, quickly arranged the organization’s biggest peacekeeping mission in history. But chaos was still spreading. Frustrated with the fecklessness of the UN and spurned by the United States, Lumumba then approached the Soviets for help—an appeal that set off alarm bells at the CIA. To forestall the spread of Communism in Africa, the CIA sent word to its station chief in the Congo, Larry Devlin: Lumumba had to go. Within a year, everything would unravel. The CIA plot to murder Lumumba would fizzle out, but he would be deposed in a CIA-backed coup, transferred to enemy territory in a CIA-approved operation, and shot dead by Congolese assassins. Hammarskjöld, too, would die, in a mysterious plane crash en route to negotiate a cease-fire with the Congo’s rebellious southeast. And a young, ambitious military officer named Joseph Mobutu, who had once sworn fealty to Lumumba, would seize power with U.S. help and misrule the country for more than three decades. For the Congolese people, the events of 1960–61 represented the opening chapter of a long horror story. For the U.S. government, however, they provided a playbook for future interventions.
Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061804816
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
Author : Emmanuel Katongole
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467446983
There is no more urgent theological task than to provide an account of hope in Africa, given its endless cycles of violence, war, poverty, and displacement. So claims Emmanuel Katongole, an innovative theological voice from Africa. In the midst of suffering, Katongole says, hope takes the form of "arguing" and "wrestling" with God. Such lament is not merely a cry of pain—it is a way of mourning, protesting, and appealing to God. As he unpacks the rich theological and social dimensions of the practice of lament in Africa, Katongole tells the stories of courageous Christian activists working for change in East Africa and invites readers to enter into lament along with them.
Author : Jo Wynaden,Nina Kushner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
ISBN : 9812321578
An overview of the country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo which includes information on geography, history, government, and social life and customs.
Author : Jason Stearns
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610391597
A "tremendous," "intrepid" history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times. At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa's Great War.
Author : G.S. Prentzas
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781610805308
Learn about the history, culture, and geography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Author : Emmanuel Gerard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674745360
Fifty years later, the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba’s assassination trouble many people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick reveal a tangled web of international politics in which many people—black and white, well-meaning and ruthless, African, European, and American—bear responsibility for this crime.
Author : Anjan Sundaram
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385537766
In the powerful travel-writing tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski and V.S. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of the world's unhappiest countries.